Kevin Palmowski Phone: (315) 430–4197 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://kpalmow.public.iastate.edu/ Iowa State University Department of Mathematics 396 Carver Hall Ames, IA 50011 Education 2011 – present 2007 – 2011 PhD candidate, Applied Mathematics (expected May 2016) Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 Advisor: Dr. Leslie Hogben Research area: Variations on and applications of minimum rank of graphs BA, Mathematics Minor in Computer Applications SUNY at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY 14454 Work Experience Graduate Teaching Assistant Fall 2011 – present Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 • Taught various college-level mathematics courses as recitation TA and primary instructor; • Coordinated the activities of other graduate students through administrative positions and worked with supervisors to expand and clearly define the duties of these roles. Electronics Assembly Technician 2005 – 2011 and periodically through present Orbital Technologies, Inc., Marcellus, NY 13108 • Ported legacy code to C for future deployment to a redesigned product; • Assembled, programmed, tested, and packaged various products, including printed circuit boards, wire harnesses, and display panels; • Assisted with inventory management; • Interacted with potential customers as a representative at the company’s booth at the National Electrical Wire Processing Technology Expo in 2012 and 2013. Freelance Textbook Reviewer and Data Miner 2012 – 2013 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 • Wrote a detailed review of Finite Mathematics for Business, Economics, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences, 12e, by Barnett, Ziegler, and Byleen (BZB); • Compiled updated data sets for chapter 11 of BZB for inclusion in a new edition of the text. (Continued on next page) 1 Work Experience, continued Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Wavelets (MATH 380) Spring 2011 Department of Mathematics, SUNY at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY 14454 • Debugged and optimized students’ MATLAB code for assignments and final projects; • Graded assignments; • Held review sessions for exams. Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Logic (PHIL 111) Fall 2008 – Spring 2011 Department of Philosophy, SUNY at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY 14454 • Held office hours to assist students with homework and exam preparation; • Collected, graded, and returned homework assignments; • Proctored exams (typical class size approximately 120 students). Teaching Experience All courses taught through the Department of Mathematics at Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Instructor, Calculus I (MATH 165, Section C) • Lectured 80 minutes daily for 8 weeks to a class of 23 students; • Wrote, administered, and graded quizzes and exams; • Held office hours daily to assist students with homework. Summer 2014 Coordinator, Special Mathematics Instruction (SMI) Fall 2013 – Spring 2014 Help room for College Algebra, Precalculus, and Trigonometry (MATH 140/143X/145X) • Assisted students with homework on a drop-in basis; • Managed the scheduling of multiple graduate TAs who worked in SMI; • Implemented a system to track student sign-ins each hour and wrote a MATLAB script to parse the sign-in data and create tables and plots; • Presented the processed sign-in data and provided recommendations in detailed end-ofsemester reports, which resulted in changes for the Fall 2014 semester. Summer 2013 Graduate Research Assistant, 2013 ISU Math Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) • Supervised three undergraduate students with faculty mentors Dr. Leslie Hogben (Math) and Dr. Namrata Vaswani (EE) and graduate student co-mentor Brian Lois; • Prepared lecture notes on linear algebra and presented them to the students; • Provided consultation on MATLAB code, algorithms, and proofs written by the students; • Aided the students in reading multiple papers; • Assisted with the development of a final Beamer presentation and poster. (Continued on next page) 2 Teaching Experience, continued Recitation TA, Calculus I (MATH 165) Spring 2013 • Managed course content and student grades via Blackboard and homework via Pearson MyLabsPlus; • Gave short lectures in recitation weekly, covering the main points from each section discussed in the large lecture; • Wrote weekly quizzes and three in-class exams in LATEX; • Provided notes and study guides for exams; • Graded all quizzes and exams and returned items to students within one week. Spring 2012 – Fall 2012 TA Coordinator, Discrete Mathematics for Business and Social Sciences (MATH 150) • Trained TAs on Microsoft Excel and Pearson MyLabsPlus and coordinated TA availability during exam weeks and Finals Week; • Established new practices for communication between students and instructors, which led to increased student awareness of course policies, resources, and deadlines; • Streamlined the procedures and wrote an outline for the first day of class, resulting in new standards which remain in use; • Created supplemental materials to assist students in completing assignments. Recitation TA, Discrete Mathematics for Business and Social Sciences (MATH 150) • Assisted students with homework during assigned course sections. Fall 2011 Computing Skills Programming Languages Software Academic MATLAB, Python, C git, LATEX, Mathematica, MATLAB, Microsoft Office Blackboard Learn, Pearson MyLabsPlus Talks Presented October 4, 2013 “Comparison of Compressed Sensing Techniques with Partial Support Knowledge," SUNY at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY January 6, 2011 “Who Are You? An Image Identification Project Using Wavelet Packet Analysis," AMS Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA 3 Leadership Experience See also Teaching Experience. Fall 2013 – Spring 2014 Coordinator, Special Mathematics Instruction (SMI) Summer 2012 – Spring 2014 Council Member and Webmaster, ISU Mathematics Graduate Student Organization (MathGSO) • Maintained the MathGSO website; • Organized online polls and elections for MathGSO. Summer 2013 Graduate Research Assistant, 2013 ISU Math Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Spring 2012 – Fall 2012 TA Coordinator, Discrete Mathematics for Business and Social Sciences (MATH 150) Coursework Engineering Convex Optimization, Random Processes / Probability Theory, Estimation and Detection Theory Mathematics Linear Algebra, Numerical Analysis, Methods of Applied Mathematics, Discrete Optimization, Theory of ODEs, Finite Difference Methods Other Seminar on Compressed Sensing, Statistical Methods, Steganography, Programming Seminar on C/C++ Honors and Awards Fall 2014 Fall 2012 Iowa State University Department of Mathematics Lambert Award (research fellowship) for Spring 2015 Iowa State University Graduate College Teaching Excellence award Spring 2010 Pi Mu Epsilon, Alpha Delta Chapter Spring 2010 Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Delta Chapter 4 Conferences and Workshops Attended April 7–9, 2014 IMA Special Workshop: Careers and Opportunities in Industry for Mathematical Scientists, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, MN April 26–28, 2013 AMS Spring Central Section Meeting, Iowa State University, Ames, IA September 21–22, 2012 MIdwestern GrapH TheorY (MIGHTY) LIII Conference, Iowa State University, Ames, IA October 14–16, 2011 AMS Fall Central Section Meeting, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE January 6–9, 2011 2011 AMS Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA Outreach June 24–25, 2014 Presenter, 4H Youth Conference Mathematics Workshop; Iowa State University, Ames, IA February 15, 2014 Proctor, Great Plains Math League High School Contest; Iowa State University, Ames, IA February 9, 2013 Grader, Great Plains Math League High School Contest; Iowa State University, Ames, IA Memberships • American Mathematical Society (AMS) • International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS) • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Updated November 16, 2014 5
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